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- !mod post: holiday,
- !mod post: monthly mingle,
- degrassi: lola pacini,
- httyd: hiccup haddock iii,
- logan: laura,
- magnificent seven: billy rocks,
- marvel (616): billy kaplan,
- marvel (616): loki laufeyson,
- marvel (616): steve rogers,
- marvel (mcu): gamora,
- marvel (mcu): peter quill,
- marvel (mcu): sam wilson,
- marvel (mcu): thor,
- original: shigeru miyata,
- star trek (aos): james kirk,
- star trek (tng): beverly crusher,
- star wars: cassian andor,
- star wars: finn,
- star wars: jyn erso,
- star wars: poe dameron,
- star wars: rey,
- voltron: keith,
- ✖ dc comics (rebirth): jason todd,
- ✖ dceu: steve trevor,
- ✖ dmmd: noiz,
- ✖ dragon age: anders,
- ✖ ffvii: valeria myles [knife (f)],
- ✖ ffxiv: x'rhun tia,
- ✖ ffxv: ignis scientia,
- ✖ fullmetal alchemist (03): edward elric,
- ✖ game of thrones: daenerys targaryen,
- ✖ game of thrones: jon snow,
- ✖ gintama: gintoki sakata,
- ✖ gravity rush: raven,
- ✖ gundam 00: lyle dylandy,
- ✖ gundam 00: tieria erde,
- ✖ kuroshitsuji: ciel phantomhive,
- ✖ kuroshitsuji: undertaker,
- ✖ league of legends: varus,
- ✖ marvel (616): angela,
- ✖ marvel (mcu): sif,
- ✖ marvel (tv): frank castle,
- ✖ marvel (tv): lauren strucker,
- ✖ marvel (tv): matt murdock,
- ✖ marvel (ultimates): tony stark,
- ✖ marvel: ava orlova,
- ✖ miraculous ladybug: marinette (ladybug,
- ✖ my hero academia: present mic,
- ✖ my hero academia: shouta aizawa,
- ✖ my hero academia: toshinori yagi,
- ✖ original: rin,
- ✖ osomatsu-san: chibita,
- ✖ osomatsu-san: ichimatsu matsuno,
- ✖ osomatsu-san: osomatsu matsuno,
- ✖ overwatch: hana song,
- ✖ overwatch: reaper,
- ✖ red vs blue: felix,
- ✖ red vs blue: locus,
- ✖ shadowhunter chronicles: alec lightwoo,
- ✖ shadowhunter chronicles: jace wayland,
- ✖ star trek (ds9): odo,
- ✖ the adventure zone: lup taaco,
- ✖ the adventure zone: magnus burnsides,
- ✖ the covenant: caleb danvers,
- ✖ the covenant: chase collins,
- ✖ the raven cycle: ronan lynch,
- ✖ vikings: ivar ragnarsson,
- ✖ xenosaga: citrine
introductory mingle: HARVEST FESTIVAL
what: Introductory Log and Harvest Festival celebration
when: The month of November.
where: Anywhere around the city.
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines
In the days leading up to November 1st, residents new and old will notice preparations beginning, a flurry of activity getting the city ready for the upcoming celebration: The Harvest Festival. This holiday is in celebration of the harvest season and autumn, as the moon transitions into its winter period, and is characterized by indulging in the plenty that comes with the harvest season with loved ones, cleaning house figuratively and literally, and making sure that those in need don't suffer during the winter. Celebrations tend to focus around food and charity, with citizens enjoying and sharing cultural meals and sharing stories, or participating in any of the wide range of charity projects and events going on during this season.
The biggest traditions of the Harvest Festival are centered around giving and sharing. Charity is central, and the each year the city sets up a large open tent with warm places to rest for anyone who might be homeless and a table capable of sitting over 50 people at any given time, with a round-the-clock catered feast for anyone who wants to sit and have a meal with anyone else who's dropped by. Besides this, there are a wide variety of events benefiting charities in the city, including a karaoke concert, stray animal round up, and the annual "stuff swap" where residents clean their homes and donate anything they don't need to those who might be lacking. There is also a tradition of writing down repressed or bottled up thoughts, feelings, regrets, sins, and other troubles and tossing them into a bonfire to go into winter with a clean soul.
i. harvest feast & stuff swap
For the first few days of November, anyone dropping by the city center will notice a large tent structure being put into place - by November 3rd, as the last of October's ghosts fade into nonexistence, a veritable banquet hall will have been sent up. For a week following the setup, anyone who drops by the hall and steps inside will see a large table laden with food. Bread, stew, fruits and vegetables, soups, roasted meat, and almost anything else one can think of will be on the table, along with plates, silverware, and cups. Anyone is free to take a plate, settle down at the table, and help themselves to a meal.
The Feast is staffed entirely by volunteers, who do the cooking, cleaning, and tidy up the dishes and area afterwards, keeping the constant stream of food coming. Whether your character is heading in to sit beside a stranger and strike up a conversation, or volunteering their time, energy, or cooking skills to the hall, they're more than welcome.
One corner of the hall is entirely dedicated to the yearly "stuff swap." There's a long-standing tradition of fall cleaning in Riverview Quarantine, where residents will thoroughly clean their homes and rid themselves of excess in preparation for the winter. The extra things that aren't needed can be dropped off at the city center where the Feast is set up, and anyone who is in need of a particular item that has been donated can take it free of charge. This is an honor system, so please be kind to others! (Or don't.)
ii. charity karaoke
On the weekend of November 10th and 11th, while the Feast will be cleared away, the tent is being repurposed for a new event - a Karaoke Concert for the needy! Set up as a makeshift bar and lounge area, the space will be fronted by a large stage where singles or groups of people can choose a song and karaoke their hearts out to a crowd of spectators. There's a by-donation cover fee, and guests are encouraged to reward the best (or most hilariously bad) renditions of beloved songs from across the multiverse with digital "tips" that are transferred to the karaoke performer's charity of choice.
Whether you're a spectator tipping a performer, or a performer who's singing their heart out on the stage to benefit a variety of charities from the homeless to the animal shelter to children in need (and almost anything else you can think of), the Karaoke Concert is both hilarious and heartwarming.
iii. stray animal roundup
One of the main charity events that seems to happen every year is the stray roundup. As the seasons turn and it gets colder and colder at night, many residents who have a soft spot for animals band together to round up as many stray animals as possible and take them to shelters where they can be rehabilitated, given a warm bath, fed, and have a safe place to sleep. Volunteers take to the streets with crates and nets or restraining poles as well as generous bags of treats of food to entice the strays with, and capture them safely to be brought back to the various animal shelters around the Quarantine. Any animal who's caught is put up for adoption, and volunteers are encouraged to take home any strays that they bond particularly well with, or are invited to foster animals in their homes.
Whether your character is a die-hard animal lover, looking for a new pet, or just wants some wacky hijinks trying to chase a wily critter around the streets, they'll be suited up with supplies by other volunteers and released into the fray. The most common animals to be found are cats, dogs, and small domesticated foxes, but feel free to assume that your character is rounding up a reptile, rodent, bird, or a domesticated alien critter. Playing a thread with this prompt is a great opportunity to get a cute alien pet for your character without spending AP.
iv. letting go
On the evening of November 15th, a series of large bonfires will be set up all along the beaches of the river, and as the night falls, people begin migrating to the beaches from all over the city carrying slips of paper in a wide variety of colors with words written on them in a wide variety of languages, and throwing them into the fires. This is a way of psychologically and emotionally cleaning house for the residents of the Quarantine, because the papers they bring contain the stories of their pain, poems written about the feelings they bottle up, a venting of their anger and fear and resentment, all to be eaten up by the flames and washed away by the river with the next rain.
No matter where a person comes from, they carry pain and suffering and hurts that they must hide. This is a welcome opportunity for characters to write out their thoughts and feelings and release them. And if the symbolism of burning them isn't enough, there are always other people around the fires who are willing to listen, to hear all those things that people keep locked up inside. Share a story willingly, listen to someone's story, or just get caught holding your deepest darkest secrets on a really vulnerable piece of paper...it's up to you.
v. roommates or wildcard
Feel free to use this prompt to meet new roommates, for the purpose of getting to know each other, or hit up the mod-posted prompt to create a Communal Housing floor mingle. Or, if you have an idea for a prompt that isn't in this list, set during the Harvest Festival, feel free to write it up!
Credit: image i & iii: Bastien Grivet; image ii & iv: unknown (stock/hobbiton)
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[ He hears bullshit and he's calling a spade a spade. Thus sofar unnamed cat, however, is now sniffing Chase's ankle delicately.
Caleb doesn't think he's ever rolled his eyes in succession in such a short amount of time. ] Showoff. What are you even doing here, trying to blackmail people?
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[ Considering daddy bailed right when he was born.
He lets out another laugh, arms spreading wide. LOOK AROUND THEM, BRO. ]
Are you serious? How could I not show up? This pathetic display's even funnier than anything on tv right now!
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Do they even have TV here, he starts to ask, and then stops. ]
Guess it's too much to ask that you'd be doing something, I don't know, useful with yourself.
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Useful, huh? And what would you recommend? [ Chase crouches down to offer his hand to the cat. Come on, buddy... Let him pet you. Looking up at Caleb, he grins. ] You know there are other ways of getting your catharsis, right?
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Anything but this.
[ Caleb frowns at Chase. Is he hitting on him? ] I haven't found a pool, so.
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I didn't mean swimming. God... [ He shakes his head after wrinkling his nose at Caleb. ] I meant Using. [ OBVI.
But hey, he'll hit on you if that's what you want, instead, Caleb. ]
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It's a drug, Chase, and I have no intention of becoming addicted to anything. Not alcohol, not real drugs, and not Using. [ A nosewrinkle. Taking care of someone who is addicted makes the whole prospect seem a lot uglier, thanks. ]
Besides I don't feel better when I Use, I feel like a power-hungry dick. A good look for you, but not for me.
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And Caleb may be making some valid points, but 1) Chase will never admit that and 2) he's not in the mood to talk about it right now. So he just grins and latches on to the easiest part to twist around. ]
Aw, you think I'm pretty?
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Caleb rolls his eyes for what must be the millionth time since he first ran into Chase here. Eventually he's going to get stuck like that. ]
Unfortunately.
[ Hitting Chase with the truth seems to be the best way to avoid being teased about it, somehow.
It's bound to blow up in his face, he knows this. And yet. ]
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So he just, uh, laughs? HAHA WHAT A JOKE. Except there's a strain of awkwardness running through it. It's like a HAHAHA... HA??? situation. ]
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He sighs, poking at the inside of his cheek with his tongue. He wants to make Chase feel better, somehow, without exposing himself to ridicule. 'I thought you knew' is kind of out; Caleb's been in the closet about being attracted to guys for about as long as he's been in the closet about being a witch, so. Apologizing sends the wrong message.
Caleb finally looks away, choosing to pick up Nile instead of staring at Chase. ]
I did before. I still do. [ Which makes it difficult because you TRIED TO KILL HIM AND HIS GIRLFRIEND. ] Sucker for punishment, I guess.
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Because, really, everything's complicated enough without developing a stupid, pointless crush on the guy he tried to kill. The guy who kind of kicked his ass and knocked him right into a goddamn flaming portal.
The guy who represents every opportunity that had been taken from Chase just because he had the amazing luck of being born to the descendant of John Putnam instead of one of the other families. ]
Yeah? And what am I supposed to do with that information, huh? [ SUDDENLY, NOTHING IS FUNNY ANYMORE. ] Feel bad for you? Fight your girlfriend for your hand?
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I don't care what you do with it, okay? You asked a question, I gave an answer. Make fun of me! That's what you usually do.
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You don't get to drop that on me! [ Which is about all he can spit out, because talking to Caleb is a hell of a lot harder when he's not taunting him. But it's not like Chase is in control of himself enough to really take a step back and try to figure out why he's getting so angry at Caleb's admission. He just knows that he is, and that there's a feeling of unfairness prickling at him. ]
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[ Caleb snorts at the finger pointing, but doesn't do anything about it. ]
Well I did. You'll live with it, I'm sure.
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It's on the tip of his tongue, just about to come out, when he changes tracks at the last second. ]
You know... Right now, it's not in my best interests to kill you or Sarah. But I might make an exception if you keep pushing things. [ He smiles for a moment, perfectly sweet, before he snarls out: ] I'm not Pogue. Or Reid. Or Tyler. I'm not your friend, and I'm not your lackey. And I'm not some backup plan in case Sarah dumps you. [ He leans in to tap on Caleb's temple. ] Let that sink in before you try to lecture me again. You're not going to 'fix' me.
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No one can 'fix' you, and if that's all you've heard me say then I guess that's all you want to hear.
[ The rest? About Chase not being his friend, about Sarah maybe dumping him, about Caleb pushing just when he's trying to be honest? That gets him even angrier, and he turns away before he does something he'll regret, like breaking the rules of the truce he pushed for. ]
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It's the self-righteous hypocrisy that makes him laugh. What, lashing out from anger and injury is justified for them, but not for him?
What he doesn't get-- really and truly-- is why Caleb won't just write him off and leave him alone. No, instead he wants Chase to smile and nod and have no goddamn spine. ] Because you're so good at hearing me, right?